The Philosophy of G.E. Moore. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp.

MOORE (G.E.)

The Philosophy of G.E. Moore. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp.

First edition. Large 8vo. xv, [1], 717, [1] pp., frontispiece portrait of G.E. Moore and one further photographic plate. Original blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt, dust jacket (minor creasing to upper right corners throughout , not effecting text, contents otherwise unmarked; jacket price clipped with some light wear and a few tiny nicks to extremities, spine panel slightly faded, notwithstanding a very good copy). Evanston and Chicago, Northwestern University, 1942.

£875.00

Inscribed by G.E. Moore ‘Mr & Mrs Smith from G.E. & Dorothy Moore’ in blue ink to the front free endpaper. The identity of the recipients remains obscure to this cataloguer.

In this work, published as the fourth instalment of The Library of Living Philosophers series, nineteen contemporary philosophers examine Moore’s philosophy, with contributions by Alice Ambrose, Norman Malcolm, Morris Lazerowitz, and C.D. Broad, amongst others. The collection also contains two significant original contributions by Moore, including ‘An Autobiography’ by Moore and a substantial 135 page ‘Reply to My Critics’, including sections on ‘Ethics’, ‘Sense Perception’ and ‘Philosophic Method’. The volume ends with a bibliography of Moore’s writings prepared jointly by Moore and Emerson Buchanan.

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